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evannfarmer
Microsoft
MicrosoftReview tracked changes with new cards in Word
Hi, Office Insiders! Kimberley Chua from the Word team is here to let you know that we’re now bringing improvements to Word for Windows and Word for Mac: new Track Changes cards!
New Track Changes cards
Collecting and acting on feedback about your document is a critical factor in creating great content, and the Track Changes feature in Word is an essential part of that process. Now we’ve added new Track Changes cards, which make it easier to review a change before you accept or reject it.
How it works
Ready to give the new Track Changes cards a try?
1. When working in any Word document that contains tracked changes and shows all revisions inline, click on a tracked change in the text.
2. Review the suggested change in the card that pops up.
Read the rest in the blog post!
Cheers,
Evann
Office Insider Community Manager
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- Another request to allow disabling. Lawyers really don't like it.
David Schrag amen. I am one of those lawyers.
evannfarmer I agree with the above comments. Can you please tell me how to turn this off? Thanks.
evannfarmer And how do we stop users from inadvertently rejecting changes by hitting the X to try to close the popup? It'll be like those revisions were never made and there will be no way to recover them. Of all the horrible changes Microsoft has been rolling out to Word, this one's the worst. Without the option to disable it we're going to get so many user errors.
- I hate this. It gets in the way, slows everything down and with multiple users on a heavily edited doc this is appalling. Please make this stop or add a way to disable this.
The Track Changes Cards feature was apparently installed on my computer yesterday. I dislike the feature as much as others who have commented here before me.
To users who want to disable Track Changes Cards: I found out that I have a solution that disables the feature:
- My Word add-in DocTools StopSpellingPopUp also disables Track Changes Cards. You can download the add-in for free from https://wordaddins.com/products/stop-spelling-pop-up-in-word/.
For further details, please refer to the article I have just published, "How to disable Track Changes Cards in Word", https://wordaddins.com/support/how-to-disable-track-changes-cards-in-word/.
- SPAM.
The inability to turn off this feature is *terrible* - truly awful. It is destroying productivity for my entire department, who rely on assessing heavily-tracked changes manuscripts without wanting to accept or reject edits. Please please please roll out a way of turning it off. evannfarmer
- Track changes cards has destroyed my productivity in editing documents with client comments and changes. Spacing after accepting is wrong and difficult to fix. This is not an improvement. Give us a way to turn this off.
- The feature is driving me crazy, can you let users disable it?
- Please can you tell us how to disable this?
evannfarmer how do I disable that feature??? I really dislike it
